Diversity in Mathematics Education: Towards Inclusive Practices

Book Overview

I. Surveying the territory.- Introduction: The challenge of developing inclusive mathematics learning environments.- Large scale test data: Making the invisible visible.- Impact of geographical location on student achievement: Unpacking the complexity of diversity.-Rethinking learners' preferred mathematical task types: The values perspective.- Rethinking gender and technology: A case of graphics calculators in the Singaporean mathematics curriculum context.-Surveying the public: Revisiting mathematics and English stereotypes.-Surveying the territory: Linking research and practice in school mathematics.- II. Interrogating the boundaries.- From the individual to the collective: Rethinking curriculum to make diversity a positive resource.- Ethics and the challenges for inclusive mathematics teaching.- Valuing diversity in mathematics pedagogy: Enhancing teacher agency through values alignment.- Interrogating the boundaries: Inclusive practices in mathematics teaching - the need for noticing and producing relevant differences.- III. From diversity to practice.- (Dis)engagement and exclusion in mathematics classrooms - labels, values and significant others.- Including students with disabilities in the regular mathematics classroom: issues and innovations.- Investigating diversity in learning: How children add together single digit numbers.- Maximising opportunities in mathematics for all students: Addressing within school and within class differences.- From diversity to practice: Commentary.-Conclusion: From Theory to Practice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319382187
• ISBN13: 9783319382180
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"